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Pub. Date
2021.
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"Mulan meets The Song of Achilles in Shelley Parker-Chan's SHE WHO BECAME THE SUN, a bold, queer, and lyrical reimagining of the rise of the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty from an amazing new voice in literary fantasy. To possess the Mandate of Heaven, the female monk Zhu will do anything: 'I refuse to be nothing...' In a famine-stricken village on a dusty yellow plain, two children are given two fates. A boy, greatness. A girl, nothingness......
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Song of the lioness volume 1
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Description
Eleven-year-old Alanna, who aspires to be a knight even though she is a girl, disguises herself as a boy to become a royal page, learning many hard lessons along her path to high adventure.
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 16
Description
Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back to retrieve a lost story in ancient Greece, where they witness the original Olympic games and are surprised to find what girls of the time were not allowed to do.
25) Screen queens
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Lucy Katz, Maddie Li, and Delia Meyer team up to compete in ValleyStart, a prestigious high school tech incubator competition for a dream internship in the male-dominated world of tech.
26) Just Ella
Author
Pub. Date
2001, c1999
Edition
1st (Aladdin paperback) ed.
Description
In this continuation of the Cinderella story, fifteen-year-old Ella finds that accepting Prince Charming's proposal ensnares her in a suffocating tangle of palace rules and royal etiquette, so she plots to escape.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Edition
1st American ed.
Description
Foundling Fever Crumb has been raised as an engineer although females in the future London, England, are not believed capable of rational thought, but at age fourteen she leaves her sheltered world and begins to learn startling truths about her past while facing danger in the present.
31) The Lie Tree
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
On an island off the south coast of Victorian England, fourteen-year-old Faith investigates the mysterious death of her father, who was involved in a scandal, and discovers a tree that feeds upon lies and gives those who eat its fruit visions of truth.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Description
"In rural Texas in 1900, when a storm blows change into town in the form of a visiting veterinarian, twelve-year-old Callie discovers a life and a vocation she desperately wants. But with societal expectations as they are, she will need all her wits and courage to realize her dreams"--
37) Crane
Author
Series
Five ancestors volume 4
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st ed.
Description
In China in the mid-seventeenth century, twelve-year-old Hok, disguised as a boy for most of her life, must now assume her proper identity as a girl and try to save her brothers' lives by entering the notorious Jinan City Fight Club.
38) Birdie and me
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"Ever since their free-spirited mama died ten months ago, twelve-year-old Jack and her gender creative nine-year-old brother, Birdie, have been living with their fun-loving Uncle Carl, but now their conservative Uncle Patrick insists on being their guardian which forces all four of them to confront grief, prejudice, and loss, all while exploring what 'home' really means"--
39) Tess of the road
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Description
"Tess Dombegh journeys through the kingdom of Goredd in search of the World Serpents and finds herself along the way"--
In the medieval kingdom of Goredd, women are expected to be ladies, men are their protectors, and dragons can be whomever they choose. Tess speaks out of turn, has wild ideas, and can't seem to keep out of trouble. When Tess's family decides the only path for her is a nunnery, she chooses a different path for herself. She cuts her...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Description
In 1364 England, one of literature's most unforgettable characters -- Chaucer's Wife of Bath -- tells her story in her own words as she rises through society from a cast-off farm girl to a woman of fortune fighting to control her own life.
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